The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has published consumer guides for managing money particularly aimed at helping newcomers to the U.S. Here's what the CFPB says about the guides, along with links to the guides themselves: Beneficiary. Collateral. Debit. Fair market value. These terms might look familiar, but what do they really mean? Now imagine how […]
Author Archives: Brian Wolfman
That's the name of this article by law professor Stephen Burbank and political scientist Sean Farhang. Its part of a larger study about the counterrevolution against private enforcement of legal rights. Here is the abstract: In this article we situate consideration of class actions in a framework, and fortify it with data, that we have […]
Many of our readers likely have seen media reports that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is strengthening its label warning about the relationship between use of certain pain medications and heart attacks and strokes. The drugs are all in a drug class known as non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, or NSAIDs. Common over-the-counter NSAIDs that will have […]
That's the thrust of this article by Peter Whoriskey.
Law professor Nora Engstrom has written A Dose of Reality for Specialized Courts: Lessons from the VICP. Here is the abstract: The latest in a long line of reform proposals, health courts have been called “the best option for fixing our broken system of medical justice.” And, if health courts’ supporters are to be believed, […]
Read about a University of Buffalo study that found that vehicle type, curb weight and price are all significant predictors of personal injury cost. For every additional $10,000 you spend, injuries go down by almost 12 percent. We also found that for every 1,000-pound increase in weight, vehicles were 19 percent safer. … [S]ome of […]
In light of yesterday's Affordable Care Act ruling, King v. Burwell, take a look at three short pieces. First, read this scotusblog post by law prof Einer Elhauge, which discusses the methodological approaches behind both Chief Justice John Roberts' majority opinion and Justice Antonin Scalia's dissent. Second, also in scotusblog, read Amy Howe's "In Plain […]
Congress passed the Affordable Care Act to improve health insurance markets, not to destroy them. If at all possible, we must interpret the Act in a way that is consistent with the former, and avoids the latter. Section 36B can fairly be read consistent with what we see as Congress’s plan, and that is the […]
Christopher Odinet has written Payday Lenders, Vehicle Title Loans, and Small-Value Financing: The CFPB's Proposal to Regulate the Fringe Economy. Here is the abstract: The market for payday lenders, businesses that provide vehicle title loans, and other small-value financing players is rife with controversy. Some see them as predatory lenders that weave a web of […]